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Vacancies: Departmental Lecturer in Gender and Forced Migration, and three Early Career Fellowships

Following a generous endowment from the Martin James Foundation, the Oxford Department of International Development seeks applications for a full-time, fixed term Departmental Lecturer in Gender and Forced Migration.

The post-holder will be responsible to the Head of Department, Professor Christopher Adam, and will be part of the core academic staff of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). He/She will have responsibility for teaching both core and optional courses on the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies and on the MPhil in Development Studies. They will also contribute to the administration of the Refugee Studies Centre and the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, participate in the graduate admissions process, and engage in research on themes related to the relationship between gender and forced migration.

This position is based at the Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, and is fixed-term for 5 years.

As a result of generous funding by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), part of the Oxford Department of International Development, is proposing to appoint three Early Career Fellow (ECF) positions. Each post is full time and fixed term for one year ending on 31st July 2019.

Each post-holder will be expected to propose and undertake an outstanding plan of academic research on forced migration with identifiable outputs (for example, journal publications, a workshop, etc.) that can be completed in one year. They will also contribute to the academic life of the RSC by interacting and collaborating with staff and students and providing ideas for new research proposals. They may also be asked to teach on the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (up to six hours per week in Full Term).

We are seeking to appoint an ERC Project Administrator to take responsibility for all administrative and organisational duties within the Refugees are Migrants Project, including financial management and reporting, project communications, event organization, and editorial assistance for project outputs.

Reporting to the Refugees are Migrants Principal Investigator, Dr Cathryn Costello, the post-holder will work in a research group responsible for undertaking research which aims to re-assess refugee protection through a lens of mobility and migration, locating the study of refugee law in the context of the refugee regime. It examines three key aspects of refugee law – access to protection, refugee status determination, and refugee rights – bringing them into conversation with the refugee regime’s norms and practices on responsibility-sharing and solutions.

The post is part-time (25% FTE, 9 hours per week), to start as soon as possible, and is tenable until 31 December 2022.

As advertised earlier, we are also seeking two experienced post-doctoral researchers to form the core team for the ERC-funded REF-MIG project, led by the Principal Investigator (PI), Dr Cathryn Costello, based at the Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. The posts are both fixed term for three years and are to commence as soon as possible.